From Sh-t on my Boots to Carnegie Hall: A Memoir of a Pennsylvania Mennonite Farm Boy's personal, spiritual, and musical journey

Dr. Lehman treks the reader through an evolution from a Mennonite farm boy living in PonBank, ,Pennsylvania-a tough, Appalachian town-with little knowledge of the non-Mennonite cultural and spiritual world to a life unimaginable to that small boy. He relates a journey that meanders through troughs and peaks, through doubts and tough decisions in his personal life. Through searching and many encounters, his view of God, the spiritual life and religion progressed to a comfort level he maintains. Musically, he shares his education and performance experiences of his journey to becoming an opera singer, a conductor and a professor. Highlights of his career cover seven international choir tours, singing for and shaking hands with the Pope, sharing a concert with tribal choirs in Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, South Africa, dancing and drinking with Siberian Russians and conducting a concert in Carnegie Hall and forty plus years of successful teaching.